I’m such a slacker.  Last month, I finally got around to putting together two sets of wedding albums for my in-laws and my sister in-law who lives in Illinois.  FINALLY!  It’s been way too long and I feel horrible for making them wait all this time to see the pictures.   To my defense, in the meantime, I did send out an email to the online album, but apparently they claim they never got my email.  It’s a tough job narrowing down from over 1,000 pictures taken during our two-day wedding affair to just 300.  Actually, it was kind of easy to pick out pictures for my in-laws.  I know they don’t care to have pictures of my parents’ guests and all, so I weeded all of those out.  I found these simple black photo albums at Fred Myers.  I forgot to take pictures of them though.  While it looked elegant enough to hold wedding photos, it sure didn’t have the feel of high quality albums.  Oh well, I’m on budget alright?  So, speaking of albums I haven’t gotten around to making any albums for myself yet.  Perhaps I can try to make this our one year anniversary project or something? When I was searching  for a wedding photographer I just wanted to negotiate for full rights to the digital files only.  Wedding photography is expensive!  At that time I didn’t care for the extra 8×10, 2-5×7, 20 page parent albums, etc. that could drive up the cost of the wedding packages.  I felt it was cheaper to get them printed and done myself, which is true.  Now for the coffee table/photobook albums, that’s a different story.  My plan was to design my own pages and layouts on my own time when I’m ready and then find a printing company that doesn’t just cater to professionals to get my albums made.  Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten around to doing much research.  My friend Kim has been nice and helpful enough to suggest a few sites.  My photographer, Mikal, also mentioned I could always design my own stuff and then go through him to order my albums since he will obviously have access to more professional printing companies.  That’s another option.  I’d have to check back with him about it though.  Now, if I can only get myself motivated to start playing around with Photoshop again.  I guess there’s a reason why people pay a lot of money to get this all done for them, huh?  If you have money to spare then I’d say go for it.  If not then you’ll just have to be creative and flexible.